After beating Pembroke Pines Charter 2-0 in the state semifinal, the Golden Eagles have finally surmounted their age-old roadblock. And on a superbly balanced team with seven college-committed players, it was appropriately an unlikely scorer in central stopper Sara Urbano who got Fleming Island over the hump. Kennedy Singleton’s power and Abby Austin’s finishing instinct have combined smoothly throughout the playoffs, but there’s more to the Golden Eagles’ attack than just the front two. Any player on the field can score. They’ll meet the state defending champions in the Bulldogs, who haven’t lost a game since the 2011-12 season and will have the support of a massive home crowd.

Central defender Urbano scored the game-winner in the 54th minute when she took a short corner kick, dribbled into the corner of the penalty area, and launched a shot that skimmed off an opponent and bounced into the net.

“Abby Austin laid it off to me from the corner,” she said. “I dribbled in there and I saw that opportunity.”

The Golden Eagles controlled the early part of the game, with midfielders Janese Quick and Taylor North conducting a patient short-passing game and rounding the corners of the Jaguars’ back four.

Pembroke Pines Charter goalkeeper Patricia Yordan had to charge from her net several times after the Fleming Island front line of Austin and Kennedy Singleton broke through the offside trap. At the other end, Fleming Island defenders Christina Carter and Brooke Delauder cleared goal-bound shots to keep the Jaguars off the scoreboard in the first half.

The physical power of Austin and Singleton unsettled the Jaguars (19-6-1) all day, forcing Yordan into a string of acrobatic saves.

But it took an unexpected goal from Urbano, who entered the day with only one score all year, to snap the deadlock. Senior Austin put the game away in the 68th minute with her 16th goal of the season, taking a pass from Audrey Johnson and cracking a left-footed shot past the diving Yordan.

“We’ve never gotten that far,” Urbano said. “We just wanted to win it for our 10 seniors, and we knew what we had to do to finish it.”

The victory snaps a long record of semifinal frustration for Fleming Island. The Golden Eagles had reached the last four in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013 but never progressed to the championship game. Now, as coach Darrell Ivey put it, the monkey is finally off their backs.

“We’ve been really close the last three years,” Ivey said. “They know what it’s like to lose. Now they know what it’s like to win, and hopefully we can bring another one home.”